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This is what I was trying to start doing in my "Tracking Battery Life" thread where I was hoping people would post battery life with a description of what they were doing or had running. Basically, with minimal background programs loaded, no cloud sync programs, and just using Chrome, I regular...

The only time that I have this happen these days is if I put it to sleep and then disconnect the charger which wakes it up and it never automatically goes back to sleep. I don't know if this is what you are doing but, if so, always remove the charger first before putting your Surface to sleep.

Hey guys, after posting some decent battery usage yesterday, I decided to watch my Task Manager (because this is how I get my kicks) and I discovered that my CPU was idling in the 0.9-1.1 GHz clock speed range which is a lot higher than the 0.5-0.7 GHz range I had a couple of months ago. This is...

You have a year-worth of warranty by default. If, within a year, a component fails and it's not obvious that you did something to cause it (eg. screen is smashed causing it not to work), they should be able to replace it in store.

I haven't posted here in awhile since I haven't really done any solid battery use until today. Today, I was at a conference where I was taking notes in OneNote as well as using Chrome to look up webpages and viewing the programme pdf with Xodo Docs. My SP4 was screen on for 307 minutes (5.1...

The handwriting keyboard is probably popping up because you tapped the text box using the pen, thus it is logical to pull up the stylus-based input method which generally works pretty well. Tap with your finger to have it bring up the typical touch keyboard. You can avoid having to go into...

I've found that 16:10 resolutions work really well with just the tiny black bars as you mention. For more stable framerates over 30 fps, I tend to go with 1280x800 (even for Diablo 3). For really old games, I might even use the full native resolution if it's supported, such as Freedom Force...

Installed the update just now with no apparent difficulties. No BSOD and Cortana seems to work.

I was reminded of this particular problem today when my SP4 apparently would not wake from sleep. Your device may actually be waking from sleep except that the lock screen is located OFF OF THE SCREEN, as in, it is way up such that you cannot see it nor is it activatable. I have had this happen...

Here is exactly how it works: You have file ABC.doc in your Documents folder on your SP4. OneDrive doesn't touch this. Now, you want this file backed up in the cloud so you go to OneDrive on your web browser and upload the file there into a folder called "Docs". Now you have a copy on both your...

By default, any folders that you select to sync will take your online OneDrive folders and make local folders that store copies of your online files. This allows you to access your online files while offline and to upload files by simply adding them to your local OneDrive folders.

And I just inadvertently tested what I said by unplugging it while it was asleep at my desk which woke it up and then pressing the power button to put it back to sleep. It burned through 15% of my battery during the 40 minute commute back home. If you happen to wake it up from sleep by...

Happens to me too. I find that if you just let it go back to sleep by itself, there's a high chance that it won't actually go to sleep and will instead burn through a lot of your battery, possibly getting very hot inside of a bag. I always disconnect the charger before putting it to sleep to...

Battery life highly depends on what you have installed on it and how you're using it. I can get 7.5-8 hours surfing the web or only 1-2 hours playing a game.

Right click on your OneDrive icon in the lower right, go to Settings, and then tell it not to load on start up under the "Settings" tab.

Did I quote you? No? Did you read the post I was referring to, the one that's blaming everything on the OS and is sick of people telling him to just reset? My statement explains the typical "Is it plugged in; is it turned on?" response that you will tend to hear from both official tech support...

Battery life varies with both usage and what you have running in the background. I'm still early in my testing but, once I disabled all cloud synchronization programs that I had running (OneDrive, Cubby), I'm up to 8'ish hours of projected battery life (21% over 105 minutes), up from about 6.5...

First test after disabling my cloud storage synchronizers and Bluetooth, things look promising. I used my SP4 for an hour over dinner and then 43 minutes late at night when I couldn't sleep, both times to mostly read Reddit, MarketWatch, and NeoGAF on Chrome with AdBlock running. During the...

What browser? Do you have an ad block plugin? Ads are incredibly harsh on batteries since they often elevate CPU usage to 10-20% for as long as you are on that page.

At this point, I'm finding that sleep works and it only drains 0-1% over night and I haven't had any high activity during sleep. In terms of battery life during light use, I'm still getting about 6-7 hours with what I have installed which is good enough for me. I think, just as an experiment...